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By Bill Primavera When you hear the term The Asphalt Jungle, the title of a 1950 film noir based on the novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett, you probably think of underworld activities in the city, but

By Bill Primavera Always a sucker for “special” houses, for many years I had been craning my neck when driving by such a house on Route 6N, just over the Westchester border into Mahopac, Putnam County. With its stone structure

By Bill Primavera Welcome to this milestone column written for The Examiner over a nearly 10-year period. Actually, “The Guru” gestated more than 15 years ago, first for the former North County News in Yorktown Heights, as a way to

By Bill Primavera My wife gave me a real chuckle the other day when she asked, “By the way, what does ‘btw’ mean?” Margaret is actually quite savvy in the tech world, but obviously this abbreviation had passed her by.

By Bill Primavera There’s some lucky stiff spending eternal life on top of Marilyn Monroe thanks to either his vanity or warped humor or his wife’s open-mindedness or wealth. Whatever the circumstances, it led to someone shelling out $4.6 million

By Bill Primavera Sometimes when two people decide to get married or live together, the going can be tough in combining tastes for furnishing and decoration, especially among those who have lived on their own and established individual preferences. Most

By Bill Primavera When it comes time to sell a house, there are many issues to be addressed to make it attractive to prospective buyers, from curb appeal to functionality of all systems. Realtors are eager to provide advice to

By Bill Primavera Our homes are where we eat, sleep, play, sometimes work and store things we’ve finished using but somehow can’t bear to throw away. There are many reasons we may want to hold on to possessions we no